A few years ago, I built Humble Howard a blog at www.humblehoward.com and taught him how to use it. As the years went by, his posts were less and less frequent and you could tell he was starting to mail it in. Humble's a fine radio personality and host, but a lousy blogger.
He's recently taken to Twitter and he's damn good at that. He's a much better tweeter than blogger, so I recently added his most recent tweets to his site so there's actually updated content there.
Here are a few of Humble's recent tweets that had me chuckling.
Ed McMahon died which is sad because he never got a chance to punch Perez Hilton. Damm you grim reaper!
Happy Fathers Day. Like all Dads today, I'll be getting high and stopping into my local rub N tug and uh, sorry that's Daddy's inside voice!
Welcome to Wednesday. I just realized that if I play my cards right it'll soon be Thursday and I can begin my pre-weekend drinking. Yum!
Just had a flat tire near Gravenhurst. This the part in the movie where I'm eaten by hillbilly cannibals.
The video was filmed by two gentlemen who deserve a great deal of credit. Ric from ACME Pictures took video and put together this video with Dan Duran's audio and fellow fan @geoperdis took additional video that helped flesh out this piece. Thanks to all, and be sure to talk to ACME about all your corporate video and television production needs.
Back on May 2, 2009, a bunch of us old time Humble and Fred fans got together at a Toronto pub to witness the recording of the 20th Anniversary Podcast of Memories.
And lo and behold, here it is! It's a couple of hours long, and over 100MB, so be gentle. The home page for this podcast, should you want to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or stream the MP3, is http://www.torontomike.com/humbleandfred/.
Enjoy!
Thanks to Acme Pictures for donating the web space and Dan Duran for producing the audio. Oh yeah, and thanks to Humble and Fred for two hours of great radio audio.
If you have any questions or issues playing this audio, leave a comment below and I'll get on it.
I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but the 20th Anniversary Podcast of Memories is coming very, very soon. It really is. Trust me.
In the meantime... here's the 55 seconds we heard right after the podcast concluded. This bonus audio won't be found in the podcast itself, coming really, really soon!
I assure you all, the 20th Anniversary Podcast of Memories is coming very, very soon. You can't rush perfection. Look for it to hit cyberspace early next week.
In the meantime... here's the 9 seconds we heard before the podcast began.
Remember this?. We all got together downtown last weekend and recorded the Humble and Fred 20th Anniversary Podcast of Memories. I'm guessing we got two hours of awesome material.
Before I can do my thing and get this thing online so everyone can hear it, Dan Duran needs to do his thing to clean up the audio file. On Tuesday I hit up Dan for a status update and here's what he wrote me on Wednesday.
Was up north til just now fixin the trailer…anyway next couple of days I guess.
We then talked about a Monday release, but yesterday I received another message from Dan.
I’m going long on this one. I worked on it yesterday and am 40 minutes into the 2 hours. Long story but I won’t have too much time to work on it til next week. So I’m guessing Tuesday or Wednesday. ….earlier if I can get to it.
There's your H+F Podcast update. Trust me, it's worth the wait. We'll try to release it into the wild Tuesday.
I spent the afternoon at the Dominion on Queen enjoying the live recording of the Humble and Fred 20th Anniversary Podcast of Memories. I'll have complete audio and hopefully some video to share early next week.
It was a great crowd full of family, friends, fans and many who worked on the Humble and Fred morning show. The guys covered the entire history of the show, sharing great stories and many laughs. Special guests included Nick Kypreos, Tyler Stewart from the Barenaked Ladies, Psychic Nikki, Lou Schizas and Humble and Fred producers Dan Duran, Bingo Bob, Scary Pete, Chicken Shwarma and Andy Wilson.
It was great fun and a fantastic way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Here are some shots I took. The rest are in this photoset. Stay tuned in the coming days for more audio, video and photographic evidence of the hilarity that ensued on Queen Street East this afternoon.
A few years ago, my buddy Mark and I spoke of morning radio in Toronto. We're the same age, which means we'll be turning 35 this summer. We agreed on two points: Humble and Fred were the best morning crew we had ever heard and it made absolutely no sense that Humble and Fred were no longer on the radio together.
I've never worked in the radio industry, but I fell in love with good radio at a young age. The crap we're served up in the mornings in this city is shameful when I think about what I heard throughout the 90s on CFNY. Wouldn't the Humble and Fred show be perfect for Jack FM? It makes too much sense to happen, I suppose. That's the bizarro world we live in.
This afternoon I'll be reminded of what we're missing. At 2pm at The Dominon on Queen I'll watch Humble and Fred do their thing and it will be funny. It always is. But it won't be phony funny, it will be organically funny. They'll play off each other, as I've seen them do during the previous three podcasts, they'll make each other laugh and they'll be nice enough to let us listen in on their fun.
In honour of the radio I miss most, here are songs in my collection with the word "radio" in the title. See you all this afternoon.
Listenin' to the Radio - Adam Sandler
Radio - Beyonce
Radio Silence - Blue Peter
Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles
Capital Radio One - The Clash
This is Radio Clash - The Clash
Riot Radio - The Dead 60s
Heartbreak Radio - Delbert McClinton
The Radio - Dr. Hook
Radio Silence - Elvis Costello
AM Radio - Everclear
Boys on the Radio - Hole
Radio Song - Jet
Radio Fly - Joel Plaskett Emergency
You Turn Me On I'm a Radio - Joni Mitchell
Radio America - Libertines
I Can't Live Without My Radio - LL Cool J
...On the Radio (Remember the Days) - Nelly Furtado
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter - Nirvana
Radios of Heaven - The Odds
Video Killed the Radio Star - The Presidents of the United States of America
Here's how the 20th Anniversary Humble and Fred Podcast of Memories is going to go down tomorrow.
Humble and Fred will run the podcast, which will get underway around 2pm at Dominion on Queen. If you're dropping by to join in the fun, here's a map. It's at Queen and Sumach streets here in Toronto. I'd get there for 1:30pm.
Humble and Fred will do their thing, complete with special guests. It will be a romp through the history of the Humble and Fred morning show and should be a blast for those of us who woke up to CFNY throughout the 90s.
Dan Duran will produce the show, assuming his lap top can handle his audio recording software. He'll record it, clean it up, package it up and produce an MP3 file. That's where I come in...
Dan will get me that MP3 and I'll set it free into the wild. We've done this before. I'll host the MP3 somewhere (I'm still not sure where as Odeo won't let me upload anymore), update the XML file that you can subscribe to in iTunes or whatever (http://www.torontomike.com/humbleandfred/podcast.xml), create a streamable M3U file, let you download the MP3 to your desktop and make it playable online. Come back here for details as to when you can hear the podcast or follow me on Twitter.
A few years ago, I built Humble Howard a blog at www.humblehoward.com and taught him how to use it. As the years went by, his posts were less and less frequent and you could tell he was starting to mail it in. Humble's a fine radio personality and host, but a lousy blogger.
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From the better late than never files... here's video of the Humble and Fred 20th Anniversary Podcast of Memories.
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I spent the afternoon at the Dominion on Queen enjoying the live recording of the Humble and Fred 20th Anniversary Podcast of Memories. I'll have complete audio and hopefully some video to share early next week.
A few years ago, my buddy Mark and I spoke of morning radio in Toronto. We're the same age, which means we'll be turning 35 this summer. We agreed on two points: Humble and Fred were the best morning crew we had ever heard and it made absolutely no sense that Humble and Fred were no longer on the radio together.